From Severe Poverty to Self-Reliant in Liberia

In Liberia, nearly 84% of families live on less than US$1.25 a day, and 47% of households are food insecure. This is due in part to a 14-year civil war (1989–2003) that crippled national infrastructure and basic social services.

Elder S. Gifford Nielsen and Elder Alfred Kyungu of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints joined World Food Program USA President and CEO Barron Segar to observe the home-grown school feeding program supported by WFP, and took some time to assist in serving meals to school children in Careysburg, Liberia in mid-January 2024.

The convoy of WFP and Church leaders also visited rural communities in neighboring Bongo County, where some 750 farmers and their families are learning to be self-sufficient at the Margbeh Farmers’ Cooperative.